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From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: using (ugh!  yetch!) assembler
Message-ID: <1148@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 15:32:46 GMT
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In article <37247@linus.UUCP% munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes:
%In article <9763@eddie.MIT.EDU% jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
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%%In article <37014@linus.UUCP% munck@faron.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes:
%%%[...]assembly language will "fit" only
%%%the smallest, most toy-like, never-to-be-used-for-real prototypes.

If you ever make an airline or hotel reservation, or use a credit card
and have an authorization check run on it, you are making use of very
large systems written entirely in assembly language! These systems are
based on IBM's TPF (previously ACP - Airline Control Program). They
may contain millions of lines of applications code. Likewise, if you
fly in an airplane at one of the airports with the older ARTS traffic
control computers, you are again depending on a large assembly language
system.

None of this is to imply that assembly language is a good way to do
applications! Just to show that some extremely large systems are done
that way.
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